How does your child's school announce acceptances?

teachandmom
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:26:51 +0000

Doesn’t all this stuff make some students feel devalued?
No, it finally makes some students feel valued for their intellect, hard work, and dedication to academics. Schools celebrate jocks multiple times every year, but smart kids have to usually wait until the very end of high school to get the recognition they deserve from SCHOOL. In my high school, athletes had dinners every year, received letters, heck we had whole assemblies just to get revved for the games…I never got a “letter” for making honor roll each term, etc. No one can tell you who the top 10 academically ranked kids were in our high school class, but they sure can name the top 10 jocks of our class. Talk about feeling “devalued” - it was more like confused about the real importance of school!